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Vorgermilten – A Fake SEO Contest?

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Vorgermilten claims to be the highest paying SEO contest to date. Based on the official rules of the Vorgermilten SEO contest, all contest entries must link to OfficialAres.com displaying the following text:

I am taking part in the highest paying Search Engine Optimization Contest to date. The contest is sponsored by Ares. Ares is a free peer to peer file sharing program that let’s users download unlimited free files. Please help me win this contest by giving me a link on your site.

Where in this website, OfficialAres.com is an imitation website of AresGalaxy. Ares software is a spyware-free and adware-free peer-to-peer file sharing program that is open source. And OfficialAres.com is giving away a modified version of Ares pretending to be the latest version. And with this version comes along with its own nuisance adware.

Clearly, OfficialAres.com does not seem to be a legitimate company, although it claims to net $23,000 a month and was even selling the website on DealASite.com for $550,000. If this site makes good money, why sell it? The offer on DealAsite.com has expired already on September 22, 2006 with no buying offers. But imagine of someone did buy the site in September, and based on the Vorgermilten contest rules, the SEO contest started June 1, 2006 and ends on December 31, 2006. Who is going to continue the contest? Why sell the site in the middle of the contest? It seems the contest was created to increase the popularity of OfficialAres.com to increase its value so it may be easier to sell.

Meanwhile on the McAfee Site Advisor website, many of the Ares downloadable files from OfficialAres.com are marked as adware. According to McAfee, AresLite.exe, AresMusic.exe and AresP2P.exe are the nuisance-free software. But Ares.exe, AresGalaxy.exe and AresLite.exe are the software that contains unwanted programs which are the modified versions of the former 3 mentioned.

If the Ares software of OfficialAres.com really seems to be a fake software, many other people are saying the SEO contest is a fake as well. The Vorgermilten contest claims to be giving away $10,000 and a 1 year SEO contract to the website ranking 1st place on Google.com. Although anyway you look at it, contest sponsor OfficialAres.com is distributing the fake Ares software, but does that mean that Vorgermilten is a fake SEO contest? If his website really earns $23,000 per month, then $10,000 should not be a hard price to pay to the first place winner of the Vorgermilten SEO contest. For the competitors, it will probably be a gamble for them. Even if they get a winning spot, they are not really sure if they will get their prizes. For some SEO contest competitors, they are not giving full attention to the contest and are just going with the flow and checking where the rankings lead them without any pro-active effort in improving their rankings. If ever they go up to the winning spot, they will just consider themselves lucky if ever they do receive their prizes.

What is the cumulative SEO ranking secret? Ranking high in all Google, Yahoo and MSN.

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Using Dennis Agulo’s SEOBunker, it is easy to compare results between Ituloy AngSulong SEO contest entries. And one common pattern that seems to currently appear, generally sites that rank high on Google and Yahoo, seem to be beyond the 100 mark on MSN. And sites that rank high in MSN, are beyond the 100 mark in both Google and Yahoo. With the exception of Marhgil’s entry, which seems to rank well in all three search engines, giving the his Ituloy AngSulong site the highest advantage in the cumulative SEO contest rankings.

I am also currently puzzled with MSN’s behavior and has created an experimental Ituloy AngSulong page just for MSN, but it seems the real problem is MSN also seem takes a lot of time to index it. While some sites seem to rank high in MSN, these sites are down on Yahoo and Google, except for the site of Marhgil.

And this was not the case with MSN before. With many of my SEO clients, I basically just optimized my site for Google and Yahoo and I never had to check MSN, and I just know my site will be on top. But today, we are seeing something different with MSN. But this may not necessary mean MSN search algorithm is different, it can also mean maybe their crawling of new pages is slower? Or maybe crawls are done fast, but whatever initial computations MSN does in its algorithm before adding the site in the indexed search results takes more time this time? Maybe all these changes all have to do with MSN’s transition to MSN Live? I really do not know.

Are Keyword Rich Domains Given more weight by Google compared to Yahoo and MSN/Live?

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I have posted a poll on the homepage of Ituloy Angsulong, asking this question:

Which of the following you think will be the first Ituloy AngSulong site to get the number 1 rank?

  • A keyword rich domain with Ituloy AngSulong.: 43%
  • An existing Isulong SEOph website.: 0%
  • An old domain.: 14%
  • None of the above.: 43%

With a mixed number of respondents, many believed an Isulong SEOph website will not be the first to get the number 1 spot. As I have mention in my previous post, the first is MSN was Whin’s BBD. And that specific post was an Isulong SEOph website. The first on Yahoo was Benj’s isulongseoph.com.ph which is also an Isulong SEOph website. But on Google, looks like the survey stats were true. A keyword rich domain was the first to get the top spot right away. Rostom Hernandez, Isulong SEOph 3rd place winner grabs the holeshot in being the first to rank number 1 for Ituloy Angsulong. This does not surprise me at all. Rostom from the very start of the Isulong SEOph competition, he was always in striking distance, never that much far from the current leader.

What is this telling us? Is more weight given by Google than Yahoo and MSN for keyword rich domains?

Share what you think.